Thanks a lot for Marteen, Nick ans Stas.
Alberto R. Osella
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Data: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:55:43 +0000 (GMT)
Oggetto: RE: st: GLLAMM
> --- Alberto R. Osella wrote:
> > I'm trying to fit a GLLAMM to data but there are
> > problems with the convergence.
>
> Could be many things. One thing that struck me was the
> line: -gen lvita = log(vita+0.001)- in your code. This
> can very easily turn your zeros in big outliers, which
> can cause trouble with convergence. For example in the
> example code below you can see that the zeros are put
> way outside the normal range of the data.
>
> *----------- begin example -------------
> sysuse nlsw88, clear
> gen ln_tenure = ln(tenure + .001)
> spikeplot ln_tenure
> *------------ end example --------------
>
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
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